Sooner Dead — Steve Byas

Eight years had passed since the pre-Texas disappearance of Oklahoma's quarterback, Jeremy Ricco, a Heisman Trophy candidate.Ignoring the direction of his supervisors in the Norman, Oklahoma police department, detective Dirk Kloppman persists in looking for the missing Ricco.When Kloppman is murdered himself on a rural road east of Norman, his murder remains as puzzling as the Ricco disappearance.Two years later, Kloppman's widow, Carol Kloppman, hires private investigator Lance McNabb. His assignment is to solve her husband's murder, which will require answering the decade-old mystery: Is Jeremy Ricco still a Sooner Missing-or a Sooner Dead?